there was a race in northern california, in the first district of california, in which the then vice president of the united states, vice president gore, called me as democratic campaign committee and asked that i support a certain candidate who had helped him who had a family that helped him, i said mr. vice president, that candidate can't win nap candidate is too liberal for the district and we went out and recruited mike thompson, a conservative democrat. he won and he's still in congress. you have to be proactive. it will cause you problems if you're campaign chair. you have to be willing to take your loss. and also, rob emanuel did something which i started i took a lot of grief over it and rom took grief. he was right. he went out in certain districts and recruit prod life, progun democrats. there are some people like that. we are to be really a broad tent party if we get back in the majority. just doing that isn't enough. we're not going to get back in the majority solely by recruiting more conservative candidates. but you have to be very active. you have to be an activist cha